Digital Government

DOD updates e-learning standard

Federal Computer Week

Modernization

Disclosure info from White House officials available online

A new Web portal lets people request and receive senior White House officials' financial disclosure reports electronically.

Cybersecurity

IRS slow to implement computer security configurations

More than a year after the deadline, the agency still has not complied with a federal directive to secure desktops and laptops.

Digital Government

Johnson will have a full plate if confirmed as GSA chief

Stimulus spending will keep the new administrator busy at the outset, but restoring credibility to contracting programs remains a long-term challenge.

Digital Government

Adopting e-health records could cost more than anticipated

Analyst predicts that equipping providers with electronic systems could be more than double the amount set aside in the Recovery Act.

Digital Government

E-mail delay highlights sluggish federal communication network

An early effort by the Obama administration to solicit feedback from federal employees on improving government transparency encountered some red tape.

Modernization

Next-gen spy satellite network to be established

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair and Defense Secretary Robert Gates signed a classified memo March 30 that would establish a program to build a multi-billion dollar, next-generation spy satellite network.

Digital Government

Obama to nominate Martha Johnson to head GSA

President Obama will nominate Martha Johnson as GSA administrator.

Digital Government

Bad Budget News for FCS?

The Senate Budget Committee squirreled away $2.37 billion in the $3.5 trillion fiscal 2010 federal budget for the next generation Air Force aerial refueling tanker -- the only Defense Department project that the Senate allocated a separate funding line to in the entire bill.

Digital Government

Readers react to Senate's cybersecurity bill

Some readers are not too impressed with a Senate bill that looks to improve cybersecurity in the public and private sectors.

Cybersecurity

Security in the news: Events and non-events

April 1 passed without the massive attack by the much-anticipated Conficker Internet worm, but don't relax just yet.

People

Agencies should not fear being early adopters

The early adopters among us can be a pain in the neck sometimes, if only because what is so obvious to them remains so alien to us.